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I’ve always liked dressing up for Halloween. The more elaborate the better. The most recent times, I’ve been obsessed with top hats. Last year, I was the Mad Hatter. This year…well… I’ll tell you later.

The thing is, at the end of Halloween last year, I wanted to recreate VIXX’s Voodoo Doll concept.

And try something like this…

Yes, Including Microphone skull thingy.

So, I go to thinking what else I could try. VIXX being one of my faves has so many!

Cyborgs.

Voodoo Doll as mentioned above.

Dark angel concept.

Their recent one…

Dark gods concept…

I suppose others could easily pinpoint other groups. And other people.

Perfect! LOL!

Or…

The thing is, VIXX has also done wolves…

And a Chinese thingy concept.

I really liked that!

However, back to this year’s Halloween costume. Ugh, I was hoping for something like this…

In the drama, the band is called “Ddandarra Band.” Literally, the Entertainer Band. And I have not stopped laughing and crying. The romance is minimal, but Man!!!!!!! The bromance is overflowing!!!!

Kang Minhyuk was the reason I looked up the drama. And in the second episode, I remembered why I fell in love with the little boy. No longer a boy, but still…. His voice is still soooo honest… clear…. beautiful. And he shines as Jo Ha Neul.
However, his band mates are just as precious!!!
You will fall in love with each of their individual stories. Generally a story of a life gone wrong and the corrective steps taken to right a series of wrongs. A great fairytale in short… Still, do not watch without a box of tissues. You will cry each time one of them cries.
You will also wish you could adopt all of them. Including the wayward president of Mango Entertainment.

You will definitely fall in love with these four dorks. Really!!!

The thing I love about these actors are that they make me forget who they are and allow me to watch them as the characters they portray. And that’s why I loved watching this.
The next pictures are more of the four! None of these are mine. Credits to those that took them!!!! Go watch!!!! Dramafever has it!

Arguably, I’ve always liked Kang Minhyuk. His acting is pretty good as well. Loved the song he did in Heartstrings – Byeol. Ah… Star. It was, at that time, quite innocent and the song reflected that. But in CNBLUE, the most notable of the four members is dynamically voiced leader and lead singer Jung Yonghwa.
Then this drama came out called “Entertainer.”

Second episode in…and you hear Kang Minhyuk’s clear vocals.

I’ve always liked guys with those upturned eyes. And one reason why Kang Minhyuk was just too cute not to notice even if he was drumming in the back.

One of CNBLUE’s songs I have in my playlist is called “Teardrops in the Rain.” Minhyuk and their other lead vocalist, Lee Jonghyun (another guy with a voice suited for ballads), sang this song. The one I have is of Kang Minhyuk. It’s entirely in English.

Lee Jonghyun’s version has the hard ESS sound as if his tongue cannot curve through the English words properly. Minhyuk’s voice though… It curves through the words just fine, giving the song what it needs… The right amount of longing, of soft echoey whispered flow that evokes the thoughts of rain and longing.

And here again, Minhyuk’s vocals shine. I cannot wait to see the next episodes of the drama.

I should note that in this particular scene when he sings, he reminded me of another KPop singer I’m currently watching. Jung Leo of VIXX. Must be those upturned eyes.

I love the boys of CNBLUE, but this one. God, sometimes, I wish this one was my son.

Kim Jaejoong’s released his album! While in the army no less!
Truthfully, I’m not here to critique the album. In fact, I’ve fallen in love with Run Away. It’s sad, melancholy. Supposedly, saying goodbye. So why does his voice sound so… regretful… I like most of the songs on this album. Jaejoong’s voice does not forgive, give quarter, or release you from your chains. It abuses your senses. It permeates the very marrow of your grey matter and you wonder where in heaven’s name have you heard this! For a while in Run Away, I thought I may have been listening to Adele. Don’t ask me why!

There is also Love you to Death. And that’s interesting. Supposed to be sad, but it’s more… sing songy. Of course, I don’t know the translations yet. It’s just a lot of things about it is catchy. Don’t ask. I’m in a weird mood.

And All that Glitters…

I think I like the simplicity of Breathing a lot though. The guitar strums in the beginning is a great touch. This song showcases Jae’s voice so well. Maybe because I really like acoustic guitars, thinking of the islands a lot.

I really really really like a lot of these songs. I do. Then again, I’ve always loved Kim Jaejoong’s expressiveness.

BUT!!!!!!

I’m really really interested in why NoX. This is Kim Jaejoong’s 2nd album and yet, we’ve got NoX. This can’t refer to their 10 years as JYJ, or his 10 years as a singer. Can’t be that he’s counting since his debut because that’s two years ago, right? I mean the 10 year anniversary.

Does he mean. ‘No. X.’ Or is it really number 10? Or is X a place holder?

No as in N-O! Hell no! And X. Like no exes.

The puzzle within a puzzle is just that. Even his album cover is a puzzle. A maze. A giant X with NO incorporated into the top v of the x. Can it mean. X No.?

But the tiny bar at the bottom says No. X.

And I’m back down the rabbit hole that Kim Jaejoong somehow threw me into.

The album has 12 songs. Song 10 is “Meeting again… we will meet again… but…” Unless we’re supposed to count from the bottom up, then Song 10 will be “Love You More”, coincidentally the title song.

Nox can also mean Nitrogen oxide. A noxious gas.

Of course, truly, the whole thing is a puzzle. A puzzle within a puzzle within a puzzle. X definitely marks the spot. Just what kind of spot is it? And why No?

Coincidentally, NOX in Latin means “night”.

Does he mean it’s the 10th night? Like Shakespeare’s Twelfth night? Where disguise, subterfuge and love triangles abound? Come to think of it, the puzzle that is the cover has many triangles. The circles for the O, three of them are completely closed. There is no way to get into the middle of those circles. All the triangles, you can trace your way into the middle of them. While artistically rendered, it is indeed a puzzle.

So, Jaejoong’s voice leaves me liking the songs (didn’t look at translations yet), and has me puzzled at the title.

If only I could get an answer to the puzzle that is Kim Jaejoong and his cryptic albums, I may just be able to stop scrunching my forehead. 🙂

On another note… They said that Do you know? #11 on the list is supposed to be something a man would sing to his boyfriend… er… Girlfriend!!! Yes. Another puzzle…

This is what happens when you leave RhB with time on her hands and episodes of 2days1night under her belt.
This was the yuzu farm episode.
I saw how DefCon and Junho made Yujacha and wanted to try. Unfortunately, a dearth of yuzu is over my little town….Oh, what to do?
Someone brought a great deal of sour huge kumquats to the church and voila! Kumquat cha!!!! Why not, right? I’m just hoping that I put enough sugar to the mixture. It is currently… Fermenting…
I would love to try this with calamondin. So, friends and family with a tree…. Can I get like a tub full? Just a small tub will do….
I will let you know on Saturday how it tastes like.☺

Update: the “tea” or cha actually tastes like warm lemonade. Very delicious!

This should always be their smiles. I’m happy to see this. Really. Six years of them not being seen together and then they share a presentation. Wow! Have I said it enough?!?! This. This is a Yunho I know. Not the other. This is a happy boy. And that… No criticisms… Let me bask in the happiness of seeing them together. I hope there will be more interactions that we can see.
DB5K!!! Rock on!
Credit to the website that had this!!!

I know a lot of netizens are angry and pissed at the guy. I don’t doubt he’s an @$$. Believe me, I already know. But he’s a product of the society that he lives in. The girl, too, is a product of the society she lives in. Now, I understand
exactly how bad the girl must have it for him. And so the cycle of DV is enacted again and again.

However, this latest debacle of getting pregnant and saying it’s his kid and the daddy telling her to have the kid get a DNA test, etc. I’m sorry, I’m really on his side.

Here’s why.
First, I have to wonder why the eff she went to the media over a DV breakup which she didn’t press charges on. If you’re going to be dragged through the mud and raked over coals, you better be damned angry as eff.
And once you express it out in the media, there should be no going back.
Yeah, yeah, you love him, etc, etc. But exposing that and yourself to the media is basically a free fall. I wouldn’t have gone back to the bastard.
Otherwise, I would have pressed charges quietly. And if the media got a hold of it, good. If not, then it’s on him, yeah? And the chance we got back together wouldn’t be so…ugh…ugly.
He admitted to one incident of abuse. When they were together. Then they broke apart and that’s when she went to the police station and filed a complaint? I’m a little wary about things like these. See, the old adage of ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned’ is very appropriate here. This makes women hella scary.

He’s an @$$. He admitted as much.

Then she got pregnant. And she again went to the media because the pregnancy came after they again had broken up. Then SHE won’t do a DNA test on the kid? If it was really KHJ’s kid, I would have all the authentic papers and such ready so there is no question he’s responsible. Why deny that? You’ve gone that far, what’s this one step left? And for her to refuse it, wow! I would say she has something to hide and good for KHJ that he does not bow to the pressure especially if it’s not his responsibility in the first place.
Because if I were in his shoes, I’d be asking that question. So go to an independent lab. Go to a reputable one. One that I can’t effing influence. I want one, too. A lab you, effing witch, and your effing lawyers can’t influence. That’s all!!!
What she’s doing is the oldest trick in the book. Holding on to him by using a kid. If I were her, I would say, “Eff you! Bastard! Kiss my goddamned ass!” Besides, she’s done the worst she could possibly do to the bastard! Labeled him as an abusive muddereffer!

I may not like what he did, but I’ll tell you now, I wouldn’t pay for the child either without a DNA test. Especially if I even have an inkling that the child could possibly have been created while you and I were apart.

I wouldn’t have said nothing about this at all, either, because I am not one of his fans. And despite him being friends with Kim Jaejoong, I never liked him. But the girl, seriously… Get over it, girl! Either submit a DNA test already and end this stupid posturing because your stance keeps him in the limelight. And he just really needs to like… Fade away…